A 1200 micron MAMBO Survey of ELAIS N2 and the Lockman Hole: I. Maps, sources and number counts

Details A 1200 micron MAMBO Survey of ELAIS N2 and the Lockman Hole: I. Maps, sources and number counts A 1200 micron MAMBO Survey of ELAIS N2 and the Lockman Hole: I. Maps, sources and number counts

2004-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405361v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.354:779-797,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 13 figures; submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08235.x

We present a deep, new 1200 micron survey of the ELAIS N2 and Lockman Hole fields using the Max Planck Millimeter Bolometer array (MAMBO). The areas surveyed are 160 arcmin^2 in ELAIS N2 and 197 arcmin^2 in the Lockman Hole, covering the entire SCUBA `8 mJy Survey'. In total, 27 (44) sources have been detected at a significance >=4.0sigma (>=3.5sigma). We present the 1200 micron number counts and find evidence of a fall at bright flux levels. Employing parametric models for the evolution of the local 60 micron IRAS luminosity function (LF), we are able to account simultaneously for the 1200 and 850 micron counts, suggesting that the MAMBO and SCUBA sources trace the same underlying population of high-redshift, dust-enshrouded galaxies. From a nearest-neighbour clustering analysis we find tentative evidence that the most significant MAMBO sources come in pairs, typically separated by ~23". Our MAMBO observations unambiguously confirm around half of the SCUBA sources. In a robust sub-sample of 13 SMGs detected by both MAMBO and SCUBA at a significance >=3.5sigma, only one has no radio counterpart. Furthermore, the distribution of 850/1200 micron flux density ratios for this sub-sample is consistent with the spectroscopic redshift distribution of radio-detected SMGs (Chapman et al. 2003). Finally, we have searched for evidence of a high-redshift tail of SMGs amongst the 18 MAMBO sources which are not detected by SCUBA. While we cannot rule out that some of them are SCUBA drop-outs at z >> 3, their overall 850-to-1200 micron flux distribution is statistically indistinguishable from that of the 13 SMGS which were robustly identified by both MAMBO and SCUBA.

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